Coleopterous Funtilj/ Dermestida?. 447 



posterior area, and each lias a rather sliarp proiniiionce just 

 beforo the apex. The antenna; are exceeilingly short and 

 closely articulated, with a throe-jointed pear-shaped club, 

 of which the first joint is small, the second rather large, and 

 the last very large, torining more than halt the club. 



Ai<threnHa gluhiyer, sp. n. 



Uotundus, toto nigcr, dense punctatus et squamosus, squatnis inforis 

 albis, siiporis nif^ris, pronoti hiterihus, maculiBquo elytrorum 

 punctiforniibus 13 circiter albis ; aiitennis brevissiiiiis, b-articu- 

 latis, articulo ultimo muguo, hemisphujrico. 



Long. 2-5 mm. 



Ilah. India : Calcutta. 



Two sj)ecitncns in the British ^luscuni formod part of the 

 Bowring Cnlh'Ction. One of them is labelled "India'' and 

 the other (perhaps wrongly) "China." A sjiecimen in the 

 Calcutta ^luseum was found by Mr. F. II. Gravely upon 

 the Museum premises. 



The sharply defined black and white scaling is very 

 distinctive, and, judging from the identical aspect of the 

 three s[)ecimens before me (taken at an interval of more than 

 halt a century), the species is not subject to the e-\.treme 

 Variability jjrevailing in other Anthreni. 



The sides of the pronotum are broadly white, tlie white 

 scales extending a short distance round the base. Upon the 

 black median area there is a central white spot, two upon the 

 posterior lobe, and several at the front margin. Upon the 

 elj'tra there is a common white spot just behind the thoracic 

 lobe, and upon each a small anterior spot near the lobe, one 

 behind the shoulder, two at the outer margin behiinl the 

 middle, and two near the sulural margin behind the middle. 

 The antennaj are very short, consisting of eight joints, all 

 but the terminal one transverse, and this circular in shape, 

 with its iliameter not quite as long as the foot-stalk, and lu.ini- 

 spherieal in sliap<^, with its convex lace beneath and the flat 

 upper suiface alone exposed in the retracted j)osition. 



Anthrenus megalopsj sp. n. 



Elongatus, flavus, nitidus, squamisbreviter triangularibus brumieis, 

 fulvis et albis tcctus, pronoti lateribus elytrorumque plagis vagia 

 tribus albis, prima antemediana, aliis i)Ostracdianis, autennis 

 f)-articulatis, clava biarticulata, articulo ultimo quam tribus 

 pra3cedoiitibu8 paulo longiori. 



Long. 3'5 mm. 



Ilnh. Abyssinia {A. Raffray). 



